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Ken Niles
Come famous Quick relief for Acid Indigestion presents the Marlon Hurst and Bula show. With lovely Carol Stewart, the music of Albert Sack and his orchestra, and starring
Beulah
Marlon Hurt and Got the World in a Jug. Got the stopper in my man. Yes, Sarah, it's Jula.
Ken Niles
Every week at this time, the makers of Tums present the Marlon Hurt and Bua show, written by Phil Leslie. If there's anything the housekeeper at 213 Lake St. Can't stand the sight of, it's a messy basement. That's why she's always careful to look the other way when she opens the cellar door. This morning, however, her boss opened the basement door himself. And that's why, busily filling boxes with junk, we find Marlon Hurt and Beul.
Beulah
My goodness, Mr. Marley's basement sure is a mess. And we got enough junk in here to start our own city dump.
Marlon Hurt
Yeah, it looks like we have started one.
Beulah
Yeah. So this is a no bargain basement. I don't know if it's easier to finish cleaning this one out or dig us a new one someplace else.
Marlon Hurt
Well, just keep filling the junk in these boxes. We'll be through pretty soon. How in the world does it get so cluttered up anyhow?
Beulah
I don't know. To look at this place, you think it hadn't been cleaned out for a year?
Marlon Hurt
How long has it been?
Beulah
A year. Does he like every time I stop you clean it up? Something always happens. I was going to do it last week, but the Cardinals won the ball game.
Marlon Hurt
Wait, what have the Cardinals winning a ball game got to do with cleaning out this basement?
Beulah
Mr. Marlon, when you don't want to do something, one excuse as good as another. Yeah. So this job has been put off like a civilian on an airliner.
Mr. Frank
Oh, here.
Marlon Hurt
Throw all this junk in the box. There. This old briefcase is no good. All full of old maps that are no good either.
Beulah
My goodness, even the junk is full of junk.
Marlon Hurt
All right. You might as well pitch these two. They're worn out.
Beulah
What's AM Sir?
Marlon Hurt
Oh, Just an old pair of white duck pants.
Beulah
Oh, I know you, Mr. Ma. And you're trying for the joke. What would a white duck do with paint?
Marlon Hurt
Oh, I don't know. Have. Haven't you ever seen Donald Duck?
Beulah
Yes, but he. Well, that's right. He knew where I'm going.
Marlon Hurt
Certainly. Now, the next time, think twice before you. Oh, hello, aunt Al.
Mrs. Bates
I just talked to the coal company, Molly, and they're going to deliver the coal tomorrow.
Marlon Hurt
Good. We'll have this place cleaned out pretty soon now.
Beulah
Hey, you. Hot and cold today, mister. In this weather? My goodness, it was 92 yesterday.
Marlon Hurt
Well, it won't be 92 in December.
Mrs. Bates
As a matter of fact, Marlon, they were delighted you ordered your fuel early. They don't know how much coal they'll get this year, but they don't expect enough to go around.
Beulah
I thought we wasn't going to use coal this year, Mr. Marlon. I thought we was going to use that other stuff, them little gray lumps.
Marlon Hurt
Coke dealer?
Beulah
No, sir, I'm not thirsty. Thank you.
Mrs. Bates
It's getting awfully hot outside right now, Marlon. I think it's going to be hotter than yesterday. Isn't bad in the house, though.
Beulah
Oh, it won't get hot inside, ma'.
Marlon Hurt
Am.
Beulah
I'm going to keep this house cool today. I left the windows open all night and closed them up full of cool air this morning.
Marlon Hurt
I don't know whether that works or not, Bill. Here, put these books on the shelf over there, will you? I want to save these.
Beulah
Okay, sir. Oh, look. This has your own College yearbook, Mr. Marlon.
Marlon Hurt
Yeah, I know. Don't lose it.
Beulah
Look at all these pictures. Man, this is a real nice picture, Ms. Marlon here.
Mrs. Bates
Yes, I've seen a doula.
Beulah
He's real cute. One in that little old school sky blazer coup.
Mrs. Bates
We always thought so, Marlon and I.
Beulah
Oh, and look what it say under this picture. President of the senior class, handsomest boy and boy most likely to succeed.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, isn't that nice?
Beulah
Yeah, and it say something under Mr. Marlon's picture, too.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, what does it say?
Beulah
Photo, but Joan's brother.
Mr. Frank
Now put it away.
Marlon Hurt
Bull. Here, throw these old letters in with the junk, will you?
Beulah
Yes. My, don't this smell good?
Mrs. Bates
What letters are those, Marlon?
Marlon Hurt
Oh, just some I got in school.
Beulah
That's pretty letters, too. Pink and blue.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, incidentally, be what happened to that boy friend of yours? I thought he was coming over to help us this morning, Bill.
Beulah
Yeah, he said he'd be here, ma'.
Marlon Hurt
Am.
Beulah
I called him up and he said he hurry right Over. That boy hurries like a tired turtle.
Marlon Hurt
Well, he can carry these boxes of junk out in the alley when he does get here. Look over here at Al. See if there's anything you want to keep out of this bunch.
Mrs. Bates
All right, Marlon. I think it's all junk, though.
Beulah
See, Miss Shame is thrown away. They smell like lilac. Smell pretty. Oh, now, wait, beauty. You ain't fixing to read the man's letter? Well, he said he didn't want a minute. I know, but you ain't ought to be reading. Oh, what's up now?
Mr. Jenkins
I'm busy.
Beulah
Let me see you Say, dearest Marlon, please don't be angry at papa's action last night. He is very fond of you.
Mr. Jenkins
Really.
Beulah
He just has a habit of always shooting at my boyfriend. Oh, yeah, Break yourself with that. That's a bad habit.
Marlon Hurt
Bula. What are you doing?
Beulah
Oh, well, this room, this letter here, Mr. Moore, it's fair right out of the envelope. Now it's gonna open right up. My hands face up, too. Oh, now, Mr. Martin, you don't think I'd read your old love letters on purpose, do you?
Marlon Hurt
Yes, I do.
Beulah
And you are so right, And I'm so sorry.
Marlon Hurt
Well, okay then. As I recall, they were pretty good reading at that. Well, I'll take them and burn them later.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, here's the rest of the junk fuel I have. They'll take it all out.
Beulah
Okay, ma'.
Marlon Hurt
Am.
Beulah
I'll just keep this little thermometer, though. Don't throw that out. I'll hang it upstairs.
Mrs. Bates
All right, if you want it.
Marlon Hurt
Well, come on. You might as well go upstairs. Although I'd just as soon stay down here where it's cool.
Beulah
It ain't gonna be hot in the house today, Mr. Marlon. Like I said, I'm gonna keep them windows closed and the temperature down and our spirits up.
Ken Niles
Well, I hope you're right.
Marlon Hurt
Personally, I didn't bad here in the
Mrs. Bates
kitchen, Marlon, at that.
Marlon Hurt
Well, it's early yet. When it gets hot today, we might as well face it. Keeping those windows closed won't keep the heat out.
Mrs. Bates
I don't know now, Marlon, maybe it might help.
Marlon Hurt
Well, I don't know about you two, but I'm gonna go make like a bride right now.
Beulah
Make like a Bryson.
Marlon Hurt
Yep. I'm going to surprise myself with a shower.
Beulah
That's him. That's my boy.
Ken Niles
Here's our sack of the orchestra with bell bottom trous.
Mrs. Bates
It seems pretty comfortable out here in the kitchen. Beulah, what does the thermometer say?
Beulah
Let me see if some say 80. That's what I say.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, yes. Why, that isn't bad at all. I'm beginning to think keeping the house closed up does help. Beulah must be much hotter than that outside.
Beulah
Well, I know, ma'. Am, the grocery boy brought us a T bone a while ago, and when he got here, that steak was medium rare. Now, Bueller and a grocery boy was medium well.
Mrs. Bates
Well, in that case, I won't step out of the house today. Did Bill ever get here to take that junk outside the way?
Beulah
I ain't coming up to back off now, ma'.
Mackenzie
Am.
Beulah
Trying his best to get here after the job is done.
Mrs. Bates
Well, put him to work, Beulah.
Beulah
If he's going to eat, he's going to work, ma'. Am, and I know he's going to eat it. Who's that knock on my door three hours late?
Marlon Hurt
Bill, baby. No pain, no strain.
Beulah
Help, Bill. Yeah.
Marlon Hurt
I rode in here on the crest of a heat wave. It's hot out there.
Beulah
Well, shut the door. I'm keeping the place closed up. This old.
Marlon Hurt
Stay cool. Let me sit down here next to the iceberg. I'm steaming like an uphill freight train. Give me something cold, baby.
Beulah
I'll give you some cold or cold
Marlon Hurt
shoulder beef or pork. A cold shoulder polar, be all.
Beulah
You know what I'm talking about. Bill, where you been? You told me on the phone you'd be over here in three shakes.
Marlon Hurt
That's what it did. Come right over here in three shakes. Two pineapple and one vanilla. And it heat sure make me hot. Sure make me hot with heat.
Beulah
Oh, Bill, you told me you helped me clean out the basin this morning. I'll be good and mad with you.
Marlon Hurt
Oh, hold that fold, Billy. That's it. Oh, I like it when he gets that spark in your eyes. That's pretty.
Beulah
Here's a Bill.
Marlon Hurt
I just thought of a new name for you on account of you as such dynamite. From now on, you was my incendiary brunette.
Beulah
Oh, that's cute, Bill. Incendiary brunette. Oh, you have ashamed of getting over here after all the work is done.
Marlon Hurt
The work all done, huh? Oh, I wanted to help. Oh, that's bad.
Beulah
But there's one job left.
Marlon Hurt
Oh, that's worse.
Beulah
You just said you want help, so I saved the heavy lifting for you. Come on, it's down the basement.
Marlon Hurt
Heavy lifting? Yeah, but you see. Be my muscle.
Beulah
Come on, trot downstairs there and can them boxes junk out and set him in the alley. What? Now I'm holding the door.
Marlon Hurt
Okay, there goes your Muscle man, baby. What would you do without me anyhow?
Beulah
I don't know, but don't tell me to try it. I don't care what everybody say. He's kind of cute anyhow. It is awfully hot today to be carrying heavy boxes. But Bill, he ain't gonna overdo. I know that. Well, still might be cool in here
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Beulah
Come in.
Mrs. Bates
Hello, Beulah.
Beulah
Oh, hello, Ms. Cal. Come in.
Mrs. Bates
Out to eat, Isn't it murder? The paper says it's the hottest day.
Marlon Hurt
Hello, Cal. I thought I heard you out here. What are you doing out today, honey? Even mad dogs and Englishmen stay in the shade on a day like this.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, the house is in an uproar, Marlon. Dad picked today to weather strip the windows.
Beulah
Weatherstrip. What's that weatherstrip stuff, Ms. Carroll?
Mrs. Bates
It's to make the windows tight, Beulah. It saves heat.
Beulah
My goodness, all this heat kicking around town to Dallas. See what anybody wants to save him for.
Marlon Hurt
No, no, no. That's for the Winter Bullet.
Mrs. Bates
Dad says we're going to be awfully short of coal and oil this winter. He says we've got to get all the heat out of it we can now.
Marlon Hurt
That's right. This reconversion business is going to take a lot of fuel sharp to start with. Of course, the only answer is to cut down on it and make a little heat go a long way. Hey, how'd we get on this subject, anyway? Let's talk about something pleasant. I'm burning up 80 degrees.
Beulah
Weather's nice and.
Mrs. Bates
Yeah, I better rush. Marlon. I'm going downtown to look over the August 1st sales. They got some wonderful coats.
Marlon Hurt
Fur sale. Fur coats in this weather?
Mrs. Bates
Oh, I'm not going to buy anything, Marlon. I'm just going down and look them over and try them on.
Marlon Hurt
Oh, is that cooler?
Mrs. Bates
Oh, they've got some beautiful mink strollers at the Leader.
Beulah
Any make go strolling this weather, just tell them silly. I don't.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, that's just the name of the coach. Bueller. A stroller is a short coat. They've got a crossbox down here. I want to see, too.
Marlon Hurt
This weather. He's got a right to be crossed. Well, come on, honey, I'll walk you to the front door.
Mrs. Bates
Okay. I think Dad's going to give me
Beulah
a fur coat for Christmas.
Marlon Hurt
Wonderful.
Mrs. Bates
And that's one time I won't mind taking the wrap. You don't belong to it.
Beulah
Take the rest. I wish Mrs. Ma would marry that little girl. She got the same kind of sense of humor he's got. Kind of on the corny side, but I. My goodness, this is a busy place. I'm gonna get me a door man. I'll put a revolver in the back door here. Come in.
Marlon Hurt
Hello, Beulah.
Ken Niles
How's everything, eh?
Mrs. Bates
Fine.
Beulah
Mr. Niles. In here. Must be awful hot outside, Lou.
Ken Niles
Oh, it's a wonderful day, beulah. Temperature around 100. I feel great.
Beulah
You all still feel great, don't you? I never did see you when you wasn't strictly sunny side up, sir.
Ken Niles
Well, that's because I'm always well and happy, Beulah. You know, most of the bad tempers you see in people are because they aren't well in some way or other. And you'd be surprised how much of that irritability comes from acid indigestion.
Beulah
Oh, that indigestion.
Ken Niles
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Beulah
I love the way you put that in there.
Ken Niles
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Beulah
My, my, that quick.
Ken Niles
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Beulah
Mr. Nye, you think of the sharpest sand.
Ken Niles
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Beulah
My, ain't he nice. All the time dropping in your yaddy yaddle yaddle rush right off. I'm all glad I don't have to go out in this heat. That sunshine is hotter than a fireman's ladder.
Mrs. Bates
How are you feeling be you want to go to your room and take a cold shower or something?
Beulah
Oh, no, ma', am. I'm fine. It's nice here. I told you I know how to keep the house cool.
Mrs. Bates
I don't know. It seems to me like it's getting a little warm.
Marlon Hurt
Hey, I just had the radio on. It's 110 downtown, and I don't mind you telling you, I know it. You know, I think that darn cold shower I took made me a lot hotter than ever.
Beulah
What you need, Mr. Marlon, is an emergency. You honestly keep cool in an emergency.
Marlon Hurt
What I need is a change in the weather. I wish it would rain.
Beulah
Why don't you try washing the car, pop? All the day you wash the car with.
Marlon Hurt
Oh, no, it's too hot for them. I can feel my temperature going up right now.
Mr. Frank
And we'll all be better off.
Marlon Hurt
We just don't talk about the weather.
Mrs. Bates
Well, you're the one who's bothering, Marlon. You're just talking yourself into being hot. As a matter of fact, you're talking me into it, too.
Marlon Hurt
Well, let's forget a thing. I'm going to make a picture of lemonade.
Mr. Jenkins
Anybody home?
Beulah
Love it, Pete.
Mrs. Bates
Why don't that guy be nice to your neighbors? Marlon. Out here, Mr. Jenkins.
Mr. Jenkins
Hello, neighbor.
Mrs. Bates
Hello, Mr. Jenkins.
Beulah
Hi, Do.
Mrs. Bates
Hi, George.
Mr. Jenkins
Mrs. Bates, you're looking wonderful.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, well, thank you.
Mr. Jenkins
And ber you got your hair different again, huh?
Beulah
Looks great. Thank you, sir.
Mrs. Bates
And her.
Marlon Hurt
Yeah.
Mr. Jenkins
Hot enough for you?
Marlon Hurt
Oh, now, jenkins, Please don't.
Mr. Jenkins
Oh, you can't take it, huh? You're not hot on a mild day like this, are you?
Beulah
I keep the cooler here, but keep the windows closed. Mr. Jenkins, that's the moment today. It's only about 80 right now.
Mr. Jenkins
Oh, well, that's a good idea, Viola. You have to watch these cracker box houses. They really heat up.
Marlon Hurt
You. Now, wait a minute, Jenkins. This house.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, no, no, don't apologize for your house, Harry.
Mr. Jenkins
I don't to live in it. You probably paid plenty for this quonset hut at that, huh?
Marlon Hurt
I had this house built for myself, Jenkins. Built to my own measurement.
Mr. Jenkins
Yeah, well, they slipped somewhere. It's taller than you are. It certainly hurt. You don't really expect to get that load of coal you order today, did you?
Marlon Hurt
Well, I'd better get it, they said. Hey, wait a minute. Who told you I ordered a load of coal today?
Mr. Jenkins
Oh, I keep in touch. Happened to be on your roof this morning looking for a bird's nest. Happened to be looking down your chimney and happened to hear you talking in the basement.
Marlon Hurt
On my roof? Well, of all you keep your furnace
Mr. Jenkins
door open after this. It sounded pretty garbled.
Marlon Hurt
Well, now, that's a dirty shame.
Mr. Jenkins
Well, I'll accept your apology. Just be more careful next time, that's all.
Mrs. Bates
Yeah, another thing.
Mr. Jenkins
You better get those shingles fixed. Fixed up there.
Marlon Hurt
Hurt.
Mr. Jenkins
Had a bad skin chin when I fell through your roof.
Marlon Hurt
When you what? Jiggins?
Mr. Frank
If you poked a hole through my
Mr. Jenkins
roof, I certainly hope you've got insurance. Hurt. Because somebody might take a fall around here sometime and just be nasty enough
Marlon Hurt
to sue you for plenty. Yeah, but if a guy fell on my.
Mr. Jenkins
I'm sorry I can't stop and chat
Beulah
with you now, Hurt.
Mr. Jenkins
Some other time maybe, huh?
Beulah
Well, goodbye, Mrs. Bates.
Mr. Jenkins
Beulah, as soon as I have this leg X rayed, my lawyer will give you a buzz. Neighbor.
Beulah
My goodness, I hope he didn't hurt himself bad. Mr. Marlon.
Marlon Hurt
Yes, I hope it's nothing. A few months an attraction splint won't pay. Oh, gone it. I am hot now. I'm going upstairs and lie down.
Mrs. Bates
I think I'll go sit in the bathtub.
Beulah
You see, it just goes to show how folks can talk themselves into something. Just another case of mind over matter. I don't know what's the matter with them, but as long as I'm cool, I don't mind
Ken Niles
lovely character things. I don't care who knows it.
Singer
I don't care who knows it. I'm in love with you I guess I'll always is be this way
Ken Niles
Nothing
Singer
you do or say can ever change me I'm for you Forever yours my whole life that's how I am and I don't care who knows me I'm in love with you. I guess I'll always be this way Nothing you do all take an end Never change me I'm for you Forever yours my whole life that's how I am and I don't care who knows
Mr. Frank
it
Singer
I'm in love with you Darling I'm in love in love with you.
Beulah
In the good old summertime in the good old summer I'm glad I don't have to go out in the summertime today.
Mrs. Bates
Is there any lemonade left, Doula? I'm getting hotter by the minute and it feels like an hour from now.
Beulah
Yes, and I'll pour you some. I don't know what's bothering you for being a little thermometer. We hold our own.
Mrs. Bates
Well, I guess I've been thinking about the heat too much. Seems like I've done nothing with.
Marlon Hurt
Upstairs is like a bake oven. I turned on the cold water faucet my bathroom and steam came out.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, now, Marlon, don't exaggerate. After all.
Marlon Hurt
I'm not exaggerating. Hot water came out of my cold water faucet.
Beulah
Oh, that's on account of when I had Bill fix that drip yesterday. He got the handle mixed up.
Marlon Hurt
Oh, fine. This heat's getting me down anyway, though. I'm beat out like a ninth inning bunt.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, who's that?
Marlon Hurt
I don't know. If he's got a forked tail and a pitchfork, he'll feel right at home here.
Beulah
You dig, man? Come in.
Mr. Frank
Howdy. I'll. Folks, it's a shrink again.
Marlon Hurt
Oh, hell of a shrink.
Beulah
Come here, son. Shut the door.
Mrs. Bates
We don't want a lot of hot air in here. Mr. Frank.
Mr. Frank
Well, now, I. I hope you don't mean anything personal with that man.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, no, we're. We're just keeping the house cool.
Mr. Frank
Oh, well, the only one way to keep a house cool these days.
Marlon Hurt
Yep.
Mr. Frank
You just keep yourself a nice plant around the house. Makes it nice and cool.
Marlon Hurt
Yes, sir. Plant? What kind of plant?
Mr. Frank
I just told you, a ice plant. That's little joke of mine. Took me a whole week to make
Marlon Hurt
up for that joke.
Beulah
That's what it is, a weak joke.
Mr. Frank
As you know, I had had a hard time. I like to not go out here today. I had little trouble with my truck or my car.
Marlon Hurt
Trouble?
Mr. Frank
Yeah, I Had an awful time getting here with that car, Mar.
Marlon Hurt
What does it matter?
Mr. Frank
I forgot to bring it. Yes, sir. I got interested read reading in the
Ken Niles
papers about a radio show.
Marlon Hurt
Oh, a radio show.
Mr. Frank
It's changing over from Monday to Sunday at 26th of August.
Marlon Hurt
It goes to Sunday 26th of August.
Mr. Frank
Yes, sir. A Marlon Hurt and Bueller show. They call it a comedy show.
Marlon Hurt
It's supposed to be.
Mr. Frank
I say, that feller's got the same name you have, ain't he? Quite a coincidence.
Beulah
Oh, it's a small world, ain't it?
Marlon Hurt
Yeah. Do you like that show, Mr. Frank?
Mr. Frank
Well, I never cared much for comedy shows myself, but you can't get the market report on them. No prizes, neither.
Marlon Hurt
Yes, that's a bad drawback.
Mr. Frank
Well, I. I've been having ups and my troubles anyhow, though. Worried about this reconversion, Dennis. And I'm afraid when the army navy quit buying, there's going to be too much milk and eggs. Just a slug on the market
Marlon Hurt
might be.
Mr. Frank
Well, so I've been trying to figure out something else for my cows and chicken.
Beulah
It's a dude answer.
Mr. Frank
Quite a problem. Well, I better get along now. This heat's getting me down. You know, I bought me an ice bag, but it didn't work.
Marlon Hurt
What was the matter with it?
Mr. Frank
Well, I held it up with ice and I couldn't get my head through the hole.
Beulah
Well, don't rush. Don't rush off in the heat of the day, Mr. Frank.
Ken Niles
We.
Beulah
We keep them nice and cool in here.
Ken Niles
Oh, yes, it's real.
Mr. Frank
It's mighty nice in here, Beulah. Must be a hundred notes. 100 notes. 100. 110 outside. It don't feel like it in here, though. It don't feel a bit over 109. Well, hold on now.
Beulah
What you talking about, Man? Talking crazy. 109. Just nice and pleasant in here. You can see right there on the wall is only 80.
Marlon Hurt
I. I don't see how that thermometer can insist it's only 80 when I feel like it must be.
Mrs. Bates
You look at that buttery bra. Butter here. It's melting right in front of us.
Marlon Hurt
Look, I'm going to get my own thermometer out of this. I. I don't need it.
Mrs. Bates
Let me see that thermometer of yours, Eula.
Beulah
That's it, ma'.
Marlon Hurt
Am.
Beulah
It's sort of an advertising thing.
Mrs. Bates
Let's see. Take Dr. Roberts hippo and feel like a kid at 80 Juliet just painted on here.
Marlon Hurt
Look at this. This thermometer is right yes, it's on my 115.
Beulah
Oh, I feel off. I feel terrible. So do I. I knew keeping them windows down was making it hot in here. Let me get some crack eyes, Spam or somebody give me the feet while I believe I'm going to campus.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, let's go down in the basement. It must be cooler down there.
Beulah
Oh my. I think I'm on your sunstrew. Feel some water on me, somebody.
Marlon Hurt
Now relax, relax.
Mr. Frank
Just relax.
Marlon Hurt
It ought to be cooler down here.
Mrs. Bates
Oh, I knew that thermometer couldn't be right. It felt like. Oh, who's down here?
Marlon Hurt
What's the commander? It's just Bill. Oh, hello there, Mr. Marlon.
Beulah
Bill, ain't you took that junk out here?
Marlon Hurt
Well, I just about finished, honey. But it's too hot to carry that heavy junk out today. So I just built me a fire in the furnace. Been burning this stuff all day.
Mrs. Bates
A fire.
Beulah
5 is 150 and I'm dying with the heat. You gotta find it for all. Still your food.
Ken Niles
If you're losing precious sleep these sultry nights, don't blame it on the heat. But one of the most common causes of sleepless nights is acid indigestion. Yes, even a slight excess acid condition of the stomach can keep you wide awake as an all night dinner. But here's the number for slumber. Just before you hop into bed tonight, pop one or two tums in your mouth, same as you would candy mints. And if it's acid indigestion that keeping you from sleeping, you'll sleep like a kitten and wake up really refreshed in the morning. See for yourself how fast and happily tums relieve acid upset. And then night and day at home or away, you'll always carry tons. 10 cents a roll. All drugstores ask for tons. T u m s tons for the tummy. Don't forget to be with us again next week at this time for another
Marlon Hurt
half hour with Marlon Hurt and Beulah,
Ken Niles
produced and directed by Helen Mac. And don't forget that Marlon Hurd and Bueller move to a new day Sunday on August 26th. And Alice is played by Catherine Carr. Jess Kirkpatrick played Mr. Frank. John Brown with Mr. Jenkins and Gilda. Bill and Marlon Hurt were played by Marlon Hurt. This is Ken Niles reminding you night and day at home or away, always carry Tums. T u m s Tums for the tummy.
Beulah
Got the world in a juggler got the stopper in my.
Ken Niles
This is cbs. Check it out to your broadcasting system
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Beulah
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Harold’s Old Time Radio (April 4, 2026)
This episode of the Beulah show, originally airing during the Golden Age of Radio, centers around a swelteringly hot summer day in the household of Marlon Hurt and Beulah. The story humorously explores the family's strategies to combat the oppressive heat, featuring classic comic misunderstandings, the ongoing task of cleaning out the basement, and the idiosyncrasies of their neighbors and friends. The episode delivers a nostalgic, slice-of-life look at home life, laced with gentle family banter and the quirks of summer survival—pre-air conditioning era.
| Timestamp | Segment | Highlights/Quotes | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------| | 02:02 | Basement cleaning, excuses and junk | “Enough junk in here to start our own city dump…” | | 04:22 | Beulah’s cooling plan | “I’m going to keep this house cool today…” | | 09:54 | Temperature check and optimism | “It says 80. That’s what I say.” – Beulah | | 11:10 | Bill arrives, playful banter | “From now on, you was my incendiary brunette.” | | 14:42 | Weatherstripping, fuel shortage talk | “That’s for the winter, Bueller… to save heat.” | | 20:23 | Mr. Jenkins' roof mishap | “Had a bad skin chin when I fell through your roof…” | | 27:14 | Thermometer revealed as fake | “It’s sort of an advertising thing… just painted on here.” | | 28:15 | Bill’s fire in the furnace revealed | “Been burning this stuff all day…” |
This episode of Beulah delivers cheerful, character-driven laughs centered around a summer heatwave and everyday shenanigans. Whether it’s the creative attempts to stay cool or the comic escalation of “solutions” that only make things hotter, the warmth of the show comes as much from its fun-loving cast as from the weather outside. For fans of classic radio, Summer Heat is an enjoyable snapshot of mid-century American home life with timeless, relatable humor.